lol... i work at a datacenter and someone just requested 4 42u racks and

[TechBoyJK]

Hahaha... wtf are they doing? hosting eBay?

edit: its not the rack space thats amazing, its the bandwidth request.....

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
Hahaha... wtf are they doing? hosting eBay?

porn... video warehousing and streaming takes a lot of hardware and bandwith

 

[nageov3t]

eh? we have plenty of clients that use more than that.

monster.com's got, like... 10? it's been awhile since I've been there.

edit: nm, didn't see the bandwidth

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
Hahaha... wtf are they doing? hosting eBay?

porn... video warehousing and streaming takes a lot of hardware and bandwith

yea, but 50 Gigabit Per Second? We only have 4 1Gbps backbone connections, and sites we host include woot.com, as well as an entire foreign governements internet infrastructure (their military, financial, and even vip commercial stuff), and we don't hardly use all of our available bandwidth, and we have several thousand servers. How could 4 racks of servers, even if all 1U, consume 50Gbps? Or even need that much? I mean, we can only provision 10G lines from our backbone providers, so we'd have to bgp 5 of those to get that... That bill would be millions....

 

[her209]

Usenet servers...

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: loki8481
eh? we have plenty of clients that use more than that.

monster.com's got, like... 10? it's been awhile since I've been there.

50Gbps. I doubt it. thats not 10/100/1000 ethernet, its 10/100/1000/50000

must be a typo. I doubt any site on the planet is using 50Gbps, much less any datacenter.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: loki8481
eh? we have plenty of clients that use more than that.

monster.com's got, like... 10? it's been awhile since I've been there.

edit: nm, didn't see the bandwidth

haha now I see your edit!

yea, we have about 500 racks in our datacenter. I wasnt amazed at the 4 racks request, but the bandwidth....... Some of our clients use 20 racks. One of our clients has over 1500 sq ft of cage space and 150 racks.

 

[helloedchen]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
Hahaha... wtf are they doing? hosting eBay?

porn... video warehousing and streaming takes a lot of hardware and bandwith

yea, but 50 Gigabit Per Second? We only have 4 1Gbps backbone connections, and sites we host include woot.com, as well as an entire foreign governements internet infrastructure (their military, financial, and even vip commercial stuff), and we don't hardly use all of our available bandwidth, and we have several thousand servers. How could 4 racks of servers, even if all 1U, consume 50Gbps? Or even need that much? I mean, we can only provision 10G lines from our backbone providers, so we'd have to bgp 5 of those to get that... That bill would be millions....

Should you be telling people on a public forum who your customer(s) are?

 

[VenomXTF]

You work at a datacenter and this is the first time you've had a request this big... or rather small? When I was doing some work on our servers at Internap, as I was walking in I watched an 18 wheeler truck full of dell server being unloaded by some company.

Edit: I guess you were talking about the bandwidth, and noticed it's not 50Mbps but 50Gbps.... are you sure it wasn't a mistake by them?

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: GideonX

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
Hahaha... wtf are they doing? hosting eBay?

porn... video warehousing and streaming takes a lot of hardware and bandwith

yea, but 50 Gigabit Per Second? We only have 4 1Gbps backbone connections, and sites we host include woot.com, as well as an entire foreign governements internet infrastructure (their military, financial, and even vip commercial stuff), and we don't hardly use all of our available bandwidth, and we have several thousand servers. How could 4 racks of servers, even if all 1U, consume 50Gbps? Or even need that much? I mean, we can only provision 10G lines from our backbone providers, so we'd have to bgp 5 of those to get that... That bill would be millions....

Should you be telling people on a public forum who your customer(s) are?

woot.com is hosted by a client of ours.

thats the only name I mentioned, and they dont care.

and if I told you who the governement was, you could easily just go to the site of the company in charge of managing the systems from their end, and it has our datacenters name listed at the top. They are open about it.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: VenomXTF
You work at a datacenter and this is the first time you've had a request this big... or rather small? When I was doing some work on our servers at Internap, as I was walking in I watched an 18 wheeler truck full of dell server being unloaded by some company.

Edit: I guess you were talking about the bandwidth, and noticed it's not 50Mbps but 50Gbps.... are you sure it wasn't a mistake by them?

oh yea, 4 racks isnt much. I was posting about the bandwidth request. =)

I've seen the same thing.. big truck filled to the max with dell boxes.. crazy! It turned out to be an install of over 12 racks of 1U dells

 

[Yzzim]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
Hahaha... wtf are they doing? hosting eBay?

porn... video warehousing and streaming takes a lot of hardware and bandwith

yea, but 50 Gigabit Per Second? We only have 4 1Gbps backbone connections, and sites we host include woot.com, as well as an entire foreign governements internet infrastructure (their military, financial, and even vip commercial stuff), and we don't hardly use all of our available bandwidth, and we have several thousand servers. How could 4 racks of servers, even if all 1U, consume 50Gbps? Or even need that much? I mean, we can only provision 10G lines from our backbone providers, so we'd have to bgp 5 of those to get that... That bill would be millions....

Maybe woot is expanding? bagsofcrap.woot.com?

They must use some serious bandwidth during a woot off

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: VenomXTF
You work at a datacenter and this is the first time you've had a request this big... or rather small? When I was doing some work on our servers at Internap, as I was walking in I watched an 18 wheeler truck full of dell server being unloaded by some company.

Edit: I guess you were talking about the bandwidth, and noticed it's not 50Mbps but 50Gbps.... are you sure it wasn't a mistake by them?

oh yea, 4 racks isnt much. I was posting about the bandwidth request. =)

I've seen the same thing.. big truck filled to the max with dell boxes.. crazy! It turned out to be an install of over 12 racks of 1U dells

jesus, that's like 2 racks of real servers.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: Yzzim

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
Hahaha... wtf are they doing? hosting eBay?

porn... video warehousing and streaming takes a lot of hardware and bandwith

yea, but 50 Gigabit Per Second? We only have 4 1Gbps backbone connections, and sites we host include woot.com, as well as an entire foreign governements internet infrastructure (their military, financial, and even vip commercial stuff), and we don't hardly use all of our available bandwidth, and we have several thousand servers. How could 4 racks of servers, even if all 1U, consume 50Gbps? Or even need that much? I mean, we can only provision 10G lines from our backbone providers, so we'd have to bgp 5 of those to get that... That bill would be millions....

Maybe woot is expanding? bagsofcrap.woot.com?

They must use some serious bandwidth during a woot off

300-400Mbps in some instances, but usually just 50Mbps tops in a woot off.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: VenomXTF
You work at a datacenter and this is the first time you've had a request this big... or rather small? When I was doing some work on our servers at Internap, as I was walking in I watched an 18 wheeler truck full of dell server being unloaded by some company.

Edit: I guess you were talking about the bandwidth, and noticed it's not 50Mbps but 50Gbps.... are you sure it wasn't a mistake by them?

I would assume a mistake as well... at 50gbps, wouldn't they just have their own lines brought in?

Whoever sold them that stuff must have made a nice commission!

 

[Tommouse]

Might be a company like Akamai or some other enormous re distributor/off load type service. I'm not sure on the specifics of how Akamai does what it does, but I sure know they keep our servers from melting every single day. So I imagine their bandwidth usage is quite astronomical.

 

[Q]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: loki8481
eh? we have plenty of clients that use more than that.

monster.com's got, like... 10? it's been awhile since I've been there.

edit: nm, didn't see the bandwidth

haha now I see your edit!

yea, we have about 500 racks in our datacenter. I wasnt amazed at the 4 racks request, but the bandwidth....... Some of our clients use 20 racks. One of our clients has over 1500 sq ft of cage space and 150 racks.

It amazes me in this day in age that we have to have such big stations for hosting. In 10 years we will look back and laugh about how primitive we were.

 

[tranceport]

Probably take 1.21 gigawatt's to run it all......

 

[Passions]

We have hundreds of 42U racks at our work.

 

[Ne0]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: loki8481
eh? we have plenty of clients that use more than that.

monster.com's got, like... 10? it's been awhile since I've been there.

50Gbps. I doubt it. thats not 10/100/1000 ethernet, its 10/100/1000/50000

must be a typo. I doubt any site on the planet is using 50Gbps, much less any datacenter.

What about youtube?

 

[KK]

what is that, 5-6 oc192s?

 

[Imdmn04]

50GbPS?

There is no real network on the planet that has that kind of speed, maybe in a contained research lab.

The highest I have seen is Internet2, a consortium hosted by different universities, which has a 10Gbps backbone.

 

[George P Burdell]

Streaming HD porn.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK

Originally posted by: loki8481
eh? we have plenty of clients that use more than that.

monster.com's got, like... 10? it's been awhile since I've been there.

50Gbps. I doubt it. thats not 10/100/1000 ethernet, its 10/100/1000/50000

must be a typo. I doubt any site on the planet is using 50Gbps, much less any datacenter.

It not uncommon at all. If your data center doesn't have at least 120 Gbs you're small potatoes. 3xOC768 is the norm these days.

-edit-
What I mean to say if you have a problem with such a request, it isn't an unusual request at all.